Kara Alaimo is an associate professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls — And How We Can Take It Back” was ...
After two and a half years we have enough data to form a clearer picture about who is using AI, what they are using it for, what they think about it, and what it means for learning. What do students ...
Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L), Education Futures, University of South Australia Since ChatGPT appeared almost three years ago, ...
For decades, Americans worried about their kids getting high. Now, alarming new data suggest they should be just as worried about their parents and grandparents—and demanding that their legislators ...
Either way, let’s not be in denial about it. Credit...Illustration by Christoph Niemann Supported by By Kevin Roose and Casey Newton Kevin Roose and Casey Newton are the hosts of The Times’s “Hard ...
We humans are nothing if not inventive. Our innovations have come to underpin virtually every facet of daily life—from what we eat to how we communicate. This ingenuity is intrinsically linked to both ...
I have a number of hang-ups — to paraphrase Avenged Sevenfold guitarist Synyster Gates, all of us are a little (screwed) up — but one I didn’t realize I had until recently is alexinomia: the fear of ...
A teacher said students used ChatGPT for an introductory essay in an ethics and technology class. Professor Megan Fritts shared her concerns on X, sparking a debate on AI's role in education.
Using your phone while it's charging is a common practice, but it has sparked numerous debates and myths about its safety and impact on the device. Here’s a detailed look at the facts and myths ...
Two recent studies have linked “problematic smartphone use” among teenagers to increased symptoms of anxiety, depression and insomnia. But is it a real problem? And how worried, if at all, should we ...
AI-fueled cheating—and how to stop students from doing it—has become a major concern for educators. But how prevalent is it? Newly released data from a popular plagiarism-detection company is shedding ...
A leading educator has shared a simple hack for catching out students using ChatGPT to write their essays for them. Though ChatGPT's terms of use say those aged 13 to ...